Thursday morning, 106 doctor of medicine graduates strolled across the University of Manitoba's convocation stage representing years of hard work, and passed over into a career of harder work in a province and country struggling to keep up with health care needs and demands. convocation stage, representing years of hard work, and passed over into a career of harder work in a province and country struggling to keep up with health care needs and demands.
“As I was talking to some of them today, they said, ‘I’m coming back.’ So they’ll go away, do their residency, and then they’ll come back to Manitoba,” he said. Nickerson himself took a brief detour away from Manitoba from 1991 to 1995. “For me, a large part of wanting to stay in Manitoba, and more, more, more accurately in the north is to help, advocate and join the people that are advocating to increase access to health care in remote rural areas,” Irvine said, noting he grew up in Leaf Rapids.